“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.”

iron-pyrite wrote:Bright blinking lights and loud alarms on every one!

That should solve the bird problem!

That will help with the NIMBY problem that wind farms have. Bright, noisy and ugly.

Bird kill is a serious problem with wind power. The industry doesn't talk about it for the obvious PR reasons.

What I hear you saying is that you understand exactly what I am saying then!

Before fossil fuel, solar was going to be the way. Now maybe it will rebound. Just took a few hundred years. Still not the best solution but no one wants the best solution for the environment as it would limit all the fun that people who are well off have!

Birds are descended from dinosaurs. They've mastered this planet for tens of millions of years. I'm not too concerned about a few fans. Smart birds that don't fly into spinning blades will live and reproduce. And verse visey.

Makes me wonder how many birds die from flying into front living room windows, cars as you drive down the road, or by Tabby and all her feral friends? Don't think we are going to readily make changes to stop these bird kills so low/no-issue, at least by human priorities.

“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.”

Brick's wrote:Makes me wonder how many birds die from flying into front living room windows, cars as you drive down the road, or by Tabby and all her feral friends? Don't think we are going to readily make changes to stop these bird kills so low/no-issue, at least by human priorities.

All 3 of those scenarios have happened to me before. Just the other day i had to slap my cats a** when she grabbed one of my hummingbirds that was feeding on my jasmines, and she let it go and it flew away

DRP270 wrote:I have had a number of birds die because they they flew into range while I was shooting my shotgun. Go figure.

I've had a similar problem with Islamic natives in the middle east while shooting a 50 Cal machine gun. They said "if God wills it" but eventually agreed that if they keep doing it, God will more likely will it than if they don't.

A devout Quakeress lived in the country with her husband. She woke up to the sound of something breaking downstairs. She woke her husband. "Samuel, listen." "I think there's a prowler. Thee needs to go see." The Quaker got up, grabbed a hunting rifle and just as he came to the top of the stairs, sure enough, there was the prowler opposite him below, frozen at the sight of a gun pointed at him. The Quaker, aiming the gun right at the man said: "Friend, I mean thee no harm, but thou art standing where I am about to shoot."

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. Charles BukowskiDoubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire